Miss America Lunch Box
Miss America Lunch Box
Previous
Next
Usage conditions apply
- Description (Brief)
- This metal lunch box was manufactured by Aladdin Industries in 1972. The lunch box features imagery based on the annually televised Miss America Pageant. Originally a beauty pageant when it began in 1921, the Miss America Pageant became a “scholarship pageant” over the years, offering its first scholastic financial aid in 1945. The Miss America Pageant is now the world’s largest provider of scholarships for young women, making $45 million dollars available in scholarships on a yearly basis.
- Object Name
- lunch box
- Date made
- 1972
- collected for nmah
- Smithsonian Institution
- maker
- Aladdin
- Physical Description
- paint (overall material)
- chrome plating (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 8 in x 4 in; 19.05 cm x 20.32 cm x 10.16 cm
- ID Number
- 1988.3160.63
- nonaccession number
- 1988.3160
- catalog number
- 1988.3160.63
- subject
- School Personal Equipment
- Television
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Lunch Boxes
- Family & Social Life
- Exhibition
- Girlhood
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
Nominate this object for photography.
Our collection database is a work in progress. We may update this record based on further research and review. Learn more about our approach to sharing our collection online.
If you would like to know how you can use content on this page, see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use. If you need to request an image for publication or other use, please visit Rights and Reproductions.
